The point of this presentation is to educate School Library Media Specialists about the "electronic" tools out in cyberspace that could be helpful to the operating of a K-12 school library. These resources may be beneficial to a reader or to the Media Specialist. Feel free to visit this wiki at any time to access these links. Thank you!
Welcome to RESA Web 2.0! September 25, 2009
The point of this presentation is to educate School Library Media Specialists about the "electronic" tools out in cyberspace that could be helpful to the operating of a K-12 school library. These resources may be beneficial to a reader or to the Media Specialist. Feel free to visit this wiki at any time to access these links. Thank you!
You Tube Channels and Videos
Neil Gaiman
Laurie Halse Anderson - Wintergirls
Harper Teen - Book Trailers
The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod: Book Trailer
Barnes & Noble Studio - Author Videos
B&N - Jeff Kinney Interview
Percy Jackson & The Olympians - Movie Trailer
Twilight - Movie Trailers (of course!)
Books Videos TV - Promoting books through video
BVT - Suzanne Collins - The Hunger Games
Scholastic Kids Channel
Scholastic - The 39 Clues
Scholastic Teen Channel
Scholastic Teen - Inkheart
Simon & Schuster Channel
Blogs
Laura Losch's South Hall Middle Blog
The Unquiet Library - Excellent Source of Knowledge!
Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog
Georgia Library Media Association
Audiobooks - Booklist Online
Barrow Elementary Media Center
Best Book I Have Not Read - Great post about Maragret Peterson Haddix!
Book Divas - High School Blog
Hip Librarians' Book Blog
Teen Reads - Great Website and Blog!
Library Goddesses - Several Blogs Broken Down by Type
What I'm Reading Now - Teen Librarian Review Books
Kids' Lit - Personal Losch Favorite!
Booklights - PBS Book Blog
Great Tween/Teen Reads
Great Kids Reads
Guys Lit Wire
YALSA Blog
Authors/Book Companies who Twitter
Mashable Page - 100+ of the Best Authors on Twitter
Blogging YA: Authors on Twitter
YALSA on Twitter
Simon & Schuster Teen on Twitter
Neil Gaiman
Jeff Kinney
The Hunger Games Series
Reader Girlz - Great for Teens!
The Unquiet Library
Harper Teen
School Library Journal
China Sprout
KidderLit - Tweets the first line of kids' books to draw interest
Authors/Book Companies on Facebook
School Library Journal
Simon & Schuster Education and Library
Neil Gaiman
Peter Sis
Sherman Alexie
Meg Cabot
Harper Teen
Margaret Peterson Haddix
The Horn Book
Sarah Dessen
Banned Books Week
Widget
Harper Collins Book Widgets
Miscellaneous, but worth it!
Townsend Press - Bluford Series - Free Offers!
Searching for Creative Commons materials
Google Reader!!!!
Library Thing
Shelfari
School Library Journal RSS Feed
School Library Journal eNewsletters
Presentation inspired by:
YA Lit 2.0: How YA Authors and Book Publishers Are Using Web 2.0 Tools To Reach Teen Readers by Buffy Hamilton